Which of the Following Is True of President Johnson's Response

question 80

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of President Johnson's response to the August 1964 report that U.S. destroyers had been attacked twice by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin?

• A) Even though evidence of the second attack was questionable, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam.
• B) Johnson suggested the use of tactical nuclear weapons against strategic targets in North Vietnam.
• C) Johnson expressed grave fears that the incident would bring the United States and the Soviet Union into armed conflict.
• D) The incident convinced Johnson that North Vietnam was being supplied with sophisticated military equipment by the Soviet Union.

Differentiate between confidence intervals and prediction intervals in the context of linear regression.

Understand the influence of physical attractiveness on person perception and performance evaluations.

Recognize the role of evolutionary psychology in explaining biases in person perception.

Define stereotypes and their impact on person perception.

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

The mechanism through which creatures that are more suited to their surroundings tend to live longer and have more descendants, resulting in changes through evolution.

Evolutionary Change

The process through which species undergo changes over time due to genetic variations and natural selection.

New Mutations

Genetic alterations that occur for the first time in a DNA sequence, contributing to genetic variation and potentially to evolution.

Fitness

The genetic contribution of an individual to subsequent generations, often measured by the individual's reproductive success compared to others in the population.